September 9
September 9 is the 252nd day of the year (253rd in leap years). There are 113 days remaining. Events1000 - Battle of Swold1379 - Treaty of Neuberg, splitting the Austrian Habsburg lands between the Habsburg Dukes Albert III and Leopold III 1513 - In the Battle of Flodden Field James IV of Scotland was defeated.1543 - Mary Stuart, at nine months old, is officially crowned "Queen of Scots" in the central Scottish town of Stirling.1739 - Stono Rebellion, the largest slave uprising in the British mainland colonies prior to the American Revolution, erupted near Charleston1776 - The Continental Congress officially names their new country the United States.1839 - John Herschel takes the first glass plate photograph.1850 - California is admitted as the thirty-first U.S. state. 1850 - The Compromise of 1850 strips Texas of a third of its claimed territory (now parts of Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Wyoming) in return for the federal government assuming $10 million of Texas's pre-annexation debt. 1863 - American Civil War: The Union Army enters Chattanooga, Tennessee.1867 - Luxembourg gains its independence.1870 - Redmond, Washington founded1886 - The Berne Convention is finalized.1914 - World War I: The creation of the Canadian Automobile Machine Gun Brigade, the first fully mechanized unit in the British Army.1926 - The National Broadcasting Company formed.1942 - World War II: A Japanese floatplane drops an incendiary bomb on Oregon.1943 - World War II: The Allies land at Salerno and Taranto, Italy.1944 - World War II: Bulgaria is liberated by Russia.1947 - "First actual case of (a computer) bug being found" - a moth lodged in a relay of a Mark II computer at Harvard.1948 - The Democratic People's Republic of Korea is created.1954 - Marilyn Bell swam for 20 hours and 57 minutes under grueling conditions to become the first person to swim across Lake Ontario1956 - Elvis Presley appears on The Ed Sullivan Show for the first time.1965 - The United States Department of Housing and Urban Development is established.1966 - The National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act signed into law by U.S. President Lyndon Johnson.1971 - Attica Prison riots1983 - Aaron Pryor beats Alexis Arguello by knockout in round ten of a rematch of their 1982 controversial fight, dubbed The Battle of The Champions.1999 - The Sega Dreamcast is released in the United States2001, 01:46:40 UTC - the Unix billennium. 2001 - Ahmed Shah Massoud, leader of the Northern Alliance, was assassinated in Afghanistan.2004 - A bomb explodes outside the Australian embassy in Jakarta, killing several people. 2004 - Serbian Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica reverses a decision by Minister of Education and Sport Ljiljana Colic to require the teaching of both creationism and evolution in schools, and announces that Colic will be replaced.
Births1349 - Duke Albert III of Austria1466 - Ashikaga Yoshitane, Ashikaga shogun (d. 1523)1585 - Cardinal Richelieu, French statesman. (d. 1642)1737 - Luigi Galvani, Italian physician and physicist (d. 1798)1754 - William Bligh, British naval officer (d. 1817)1755 - Benjamin Bourne, politician (d. 1808)1824 - Anton Bruckner, Austrian musician (d. 1896)1828 - Leo Tolstoy, Russian novelist (Anna Karenina, War and Peace) (d. 1910)1849 - Lucy Rider Meyer, physician, social worker, educator, Methodist deaconess1855 - Anthony Francis Lucas Croatian-American oil exploration pioneer (d. 1921)1868 - Mary Hunter Austin, writer (d. 1934)1873 - Max Reinhardt, German film director and actor (d. 1943)1878 - Adelaide Crapsey, poet1887 - Alf Landon, American politician (d. 1987)1890 - Colonel Harland Sanders, fast food entrepreneur (d. 1980)1894 - Arthur Freed, songwriter and film producer (d. 1973)1898 - Frankie Frisch, baseball player1899 - Waite Hoyt, Baseball Hall of Famer (d. 1984) 1899 - Billy Rose, composer (d. 1966)1903 - Phyllis Whitney, mystery writer1905 - Joseph Levine, film producer1911 - John Gorton, nineteenth Prime Minister of Australia (d. 2002)1918 - Jimmy Snyder, bookmaker, sports commentator1923 - Daniel Carleton Gajdusek, Virologist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate in 19761924 - Jane Greer, actress1925 - Cliff Robertson, Academy Award-winning actor.1928 - Julian "Cannonball" Adderley, jazz musician (d. 1975)1935 - Chaim Topol, Israeli actor1939 - Ron McDole, American football player 1939 - Carlos Ortiz, Puerto Rican world champion boxer1941 - Peter Bonetti, British soccer goalkeeper 1941 - Otis Redding, singer and songwriter (d. 1967) 1941 - Dennis Ritchie, computer scientist1946 - Billy Preston, musician1949 - Joe Theismann, American football star, sports commentator.1951 - Tom Wopat, actor and singer. 1951 - Michael Keaton, actor1952 - David A. Stewart, musician, Eurythmics1954 - Jeffrey Combs, American actor 1960 - Hugh Grant, British actor (Nine Months, Notting Hill, Bridget Jones's Diary)1966 - Georg Hackl, German luger 1966 - Adam Sandler American actor and comedian (Saturday Night Live, Happy Gilmore, 50 First Dates)1970 - Macy Gray, singer1987 - Tathagat Avatar Tulsi, child prodigy in physics
Deaths701 - Pope Sergius I1000 - Olaf I of Norway1087 - King William I of England1488 - Francis II, Duke of Brittany, (fell from a horse) (b. 1433)1513 - King James IV of Scotland1898 - Stéphane Mallarmé, French poet (b. 1842)1901 - Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, French painter1909 - Edward Henry Harriman, railroad entrepreneur1915 - Albert Spalding, American baseball player and sporting goods manufacturer1960 - Jussi Björling, Swedish tenor (b. 1911)1976 - Mao Zedong, Chinese Communist leader1978 - Jack Warner, Hollywood studio founder (b. 1892)1980 - John Howard Griffin, writer (b. 1920)1982 - Princess Grace of Monaco, American actress1990 - Samuel Doe, Liberian president 1990 - Doc Cramer, Major League Baseball center fielder (b. 1905)1993 - Helen O'Connell, Big-band singer1997 - Burgess Meredith, actor1999 - Jim "Catfish" Hunter, Baseball Hall of Famer2001 - Ahmed Shah Massoud, Afghan military leader2003 - Larry Hovis, actor 2003 - Edward Teller, American physicist, "Father of the H-Bomb"
Holidays and observances National Day in Bulgaria (1944) National Day in North Korea (1948) Independence Day in Tajikistan (1991)
External links BBC: On This Day
September 8 - September 10 - August 9 - October 9 - listing of all days
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